Machiko Kyo

Filmography

Machiko Kyo - filmography

Floating Weeds on DVD (1959)
Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, Ayako Wakao
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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This 1959 Ozu production centers on the likable but fallible leader of an itinerant acting troupe (floating weeds being the Japanese name for such groups), Kimajuro, played brilliantly by Ganjiro Nakamura. The film opens on a lazy, stagnant river as the troupe lays spread about on a boat deck ..read more »

69% from 1,113 member

Akasen Chitai / Yokihi (2 discs) (1955)
Starring: Machiko Kyo, Aiko Mimasu, Masayuki Mori
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Akasen Chitai [Red Light District, aka Street of Shame] sadly, the very last film by Kenji Mizoguchi (Sansho Dayu, Ugetsu Monogatari) presents a vivid portrait of prostitution in 1950s Japan. In a Tokyo brothel named Dreamland an obvious irony given the faded hopes of those who work there the lives ..read more »

72% from 186 members
Not available for rental

Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama (2 discs) (1953)
Starring: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Ugetsu Monogatar: Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari [Tales of the Rain and Moon] is a highly acclaimed masterwork of Japanese cinema. Based on a pair of 18th century ghost stories by Ueda Akinari. Amidst the pandemonium of civil war, potter Genjuro (Mori Masayuki) and samurai-aspirant Tobei (Ozawa ..read more »

74% from 982 members
Not available for rental

Rashomon on DVD (1950)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's highly acclaimed film, set in feudal Japan, presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters--a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), a woman (Machiko Kyo), her husband (Masayuki Mori), and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura). Only two ..read more »

72% from 9,958 members

Floating Weeds - 3.5 stars
Akasen Chitai / Yokihi - 3.5 stars
Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama - 3.5 stars
Rashomon - 3.5 stars

Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama - 3.5 stars
Akasen Chitai / Yokihi - 3.5 stars
Rashomon - 3.5 stars
Floating Weeds - 3.5 stars

Floating Weeds - 3.5 stars
Rashomon - 3.5 stars
Akasen Chitai / Yokihi - 3.5 stars
Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama - 3.5 stars

Masayuki Mori - 4 times - show films
Toshiro Mifune - 2 times - show films
Takashi Shimura - 2 times - show films
Kiyoko Hirai - 1 times - show films
Ayako Wakao - 1 times - show films

Kenji Mizoguchi - 6 times - show films
Akira Kurosawa - 2 times - show films
Yasujiro Ozu - 1 times - show films